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Angustura Vera

30CAngustura

Cusparia Bark · Galipea Officinalis · "The Bone and Joint Tetanus Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the spinal motor nerves, muscles, and mucous membranes to address rheumatic, paralytic, and tetanic conditions.

📖 Boericke writes:

Rheumatic and paralytic complaints-great difficulty in walking. Crackling in all joints.

The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom. Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of muscles and joints. Oversensitive.

Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are oversensitive and prone to rheumatic or paralytic stiffness, often with a history of bone issues or muscle tension.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Oversensitive.

introduction

Irresistible desire for coffee.

stomach

Pain in knees.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches associated with facial tension and jaw pain.

Oversensitive.

Headache, with heat of face.

Acute pain in cheeks.

Drawing in facial muscles.

Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws.

Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much.

Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Nux Vomica →Mercurius Solubilis →BruceaRuta Graveolens →Brucea Antidysenterica

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Angustura Vera is listed in 36 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System9 Generalities7 Nervous System6 Face5 Stomach3 Male Sexual System2 Respiratory System1 Skin1 Abdomen1 Modalities1

See all 36 rubrics for Angustura Vera →